A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation

by John Corbett

Book Overview

Improvisation rattles some listeners. Maybe they're even suspicious of it. John Coltrane's saxophonic flights of fancy, Jimi Hendrix's feedback drenched guitar solos, Ravi Shankar's sitar extrapolations--all these sounds seem like so much noodling or jamming, indulgent self-expression. "Just" improvising, as is sometimes said. For these music fans, it seems natural that music is meant to be composed. In the first book of its kind, John Corbett's A...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022635380X
• ISBN13: 9780226353807
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.2"